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Conger Reynolds correspondence, April 1918
1918-04-16 Conger Reynolds to Daphne Reynolds Page 2
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about the great success of "the Sammy-Backers." I'd like to see it. Honest, I would. You've led me to believe that it is clever, and I want to see it. Won't you bring it over and play the A.E.F. circuit? You don't mean really that you had cooties in your dugouts. I thought previous allusions were only jokes. The real experience is not funny, I gather from what some of the fellows in the trenches say. Perhaps I'd better give you my recipe for the cootie killer. I brought the dope with me to deal with the critters, but having escaped life in a dugout I've had no use for it. You must be an exceedingly smart teacher. I never succeeded in teaching any of my youngsters enough that they could make 100. But my stuff depended a great deal on the personal equation. The standing of a student was contingent as much on his native ability as on what exact details he could learn and repeat back to me. I used to wish that it were history or arithmetic or something in which judgement of the results could be more nearly exact. Sweetheart, you have marvelous facility for packing a world of love into a single phrase or sentence. I thank God that my lover is so supremely capable of making a letter carry the maximum load of happiness to me. No one in the world could make love as effectively by letter as you do. It is glorious that it is
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about the great success of "the Sammy-Backers." I'd like to see it. Honest, I would. You've led me to believe that it is clever, and I want to see it. Won't you bring it over and play the A.E.F. circuit? You don't mean really that you had cooties in your dugouts. I thought previous allusions were only jokes. The real experience is not funny, I gather from what some of the fellows in the trenches say. Perhaps I'd better give you my recipe for the cootie killer. I brought the dope with me to deal with the critters, but having escaped life in a dugout I've had no use for it. You must be an exceedingly smart teacher. I never succeeded in teaching any of my youngsters enough that they could make 100. But my stuff depended a great deal on the personal equation. The standing of a student was contingent as much on his native ability as on what exact details he could learn and repeat back to me. I used to wish that it were history or arithmetic or something in which judgement of the results could be more nearly exact. Sweetheart, you have marvelous facility for packing a world of love into a single phrase or sentence. I thank God that my lover is so supremely capable of making a letter carry the maximum load of happiness to me. No one in the world could make love as effectively by letter as you do. It is glorious that it is
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